'Shameless': Reporters Without Borders rebukes X for claiming to support it
News@kbin.social – 13 points – npr.org
X recently claimed to support the press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders — which in response called X "a haven for disinformation."
Man, that's way worse than I thought based on the headline.
They're bragging about supporting multiple journalist organizations that actively cut ties with them. They claim they've sent "support" but leave out the crucial detail that the support was declined. And the support was just store credit, and not even that much of it in the grand scheme of things.
Reporters Without Borders specifically refuse a relationship with X because X is such a haven for misinformation. And X is posting misinformation themselves to try to make some hay out of the good image of Reporters Without Borders. Big yikes.
And it was completely a self-serving public relations play: they wanted to show that these respectable journalist organizations were willing to advertise on Xitter to try to convince some of their lost advertisers that it was okay to come back.